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UNC Asheville Commit Joe Gruszka Enters 2016 Top 10 at 1.89

2016 C Joe Gruszka

The lowest time from the Under Armour Baseball Factory National Tryouts over the weekend was 1.89, turned in by 2016 C Joe Gruszka (Fayetteville, GA). A UNC Asheville commit, the left-handed hitting Gruszka reached 89 mph exit velocity. His 1.89 entered him into a tie for the 10th lowest pop time so far from the class of 2016.

Ever so slightly back at 1.90, and just outside the 2017 top ten, was 6-foot-3, 220 pound Cade Overstreet (Commerce, GA). The owner of a well-rounded set of tools, he posted 85 mph raw velocity along with 84 mph exit velocity.

2017 C Levi Bass, a switch-hitter from Waco, TX, recorded a low pop time of 2.02 one year ago at his hometown UA tryout. This year, he pushed his low time down below two seconds to 1.99, and bumped his exit velocity up from 76 to 82 mph.

2019 C Dexter Brown

Three catchers, two in the class of 2018 and one from the 2019 class, checked in at 2.05. That time earned Dexter Brown (Summerville, GA) the fifth spot on his own among 2019 graduates, with only four players ahead of him and the class leader less than one tenth of a second away at 1.96. The 2018 graduates, Parker Kauffmann (Covington, GA) and Sam Thompson (Bremen, GA), find themselves just inside the top 20 in their class, with the leaders nearly two tenths in front at 1.88. One year ago, Thompson recorded a low pop time of 2.12.

Caleb Munton (Abilene, TX) trimmed five tenths off his previous low to move into a tie for 10th place among 2019 graduates at 2.10. That’s not the only improvement he made however. His raw velocity increased 7 mph, up from 71 mph in October 2015 to 78 mph, while his exit velocity jumped 6 ticks to 84 mph. He ran 7.31 in the 60 yard dash when we first saw him a little more than four months ago, and with a recent move down to 7.18 he now appears among 2019 leaders in four different categories.

Other 2019 qualifiers included Zackery Ivie (Livingston, TX) at 2.16 and Easton Brehm (Mansfield, TX) at 2.22.

CLICK HERE for the Top Pop Times from Baseball Factory and Team One events through February 28, 2016.

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